Are we alone?

July 7th, 2007 by Erich Vieth

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)

One Response to “Are we alone?”

  1. Barry McMurdo Says:

    Are we alone? Yes, always!

    Thank you for the question, Erich. We enjoyed it very much.
    It took us back to: ‘No man is an island’.

    Like a magician’s trick, the word, ‘alone’ is the misdirection.
    The word ‘we’ is where the magic is.
    ‘We’ is a skin-word (boundaries), measuring our feeling of connectedness.

    We expand,
    from skin,
    to tribe,
    to species,
    to sentient life,
    to all life,
    to matter,
    to energy, (both light and dark),
    to all; ∞

    we contract,
    from skin,
    to organs,
    to cells,
    to atoms,
    to quanta
    to nothing; 0

    Resembling breath.

    Are we al(l)one? Yes, al(l)ways!

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